System QA Tester
Location: GB, RIC, Twickenham
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
With an exceptional record of over 50% growth in each of the last 5 years, we’ve become the UK’s largest online retailer of products for the home and garden. We employ over 200 staff, offer more than 500,000 products on our sites and achieve sales in excess of £70m a year. We’re increasingly renowned as one of the UK’s most exciting ecommerce success stories and have ambitious plans to become a household name in home and garden retail.

Job description:
About WorldstoresWith an exceptional record of over 50% growth in each of the last 5 years, we’ve become the UK’s largest online retailer of products for the home and garden. We employ over 200 staff, offer more than 700,000 products on our sites and achieve sales in excess of £70m a year. We’re increasingly renowned as one of the UK’s most exciting ecommerce success stories and have ambitious plans to become a household name in home and garden retail. We’ve enjoyed huge commercial success over the past five years but are still hungry for more. In order to achieve our ambitious growth plans for 2015, we are rapidly expanding our IT department!Job Outline:Ensuring quality and consistency for output of the System development team. The candidate will join our QA team, but will operate as an integral part of the development team. The candidate must be self-motivated, organised and able to work well in a busy environment. Responsibilities:Define and maintain testing standards.Define, create and execute test cases.Create and implement tools and automated tests to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our product testing.Create and review test specifications and schedules with other teams.Assisting with test planning, maintaining existing tools and automation, and training other team members.Defect tracking and management, working with development teams to identify root cause and resolve issues, working with the business during UAT defect resolution.Identify and execute regression test cases from existing test cases and formulating these into regression test packs.Provide Test tracking and mapping into user stories.Project Management.Management of other QA Testers. Criteria for Success:Positive attitude highly motivated, energetic and proactive.Good problem solver. Capable of overcoming blocks and barriers.Demonstrably driven and self-motivated in high-change environments.Motivated and enthused by difficulty &amp; challenge, coupled with a strong competitive nature.Flexible attitude with ability to deal with tasks at all levels (support, projects, management, and administration).Must have the required skills and have relevant commercial experience.Have analytical understanding and able to understand statistical data.

Requirements:
Over 4 years commercial experience.Experience testing “DevOps” and Internal system applications.Experience testing web-based applications.Experience testing APIs (Restful and SOAP)Solid understanding of the principle of software testing.Excellent logical analysis skills and problem solving.Good documentation skills.

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